Rabies in Bats in Southern New England

Abstract
MASSACHUSETTS has for some years been considered a rabies-free area — for instance, no rabies in man has occurred since 1935, and from 1949 to 1961 no rabid animals were identified in the State. Nevertheless, the possibility that bat rabies would appear in this area had been under consideration ever since rabies in insectivorous bats was first shown to exist in the United States in 1954.1 Subsequent reports of several human deaths from rabies after exposure to bats or their bites2 prompted the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to include a search for rabies infection in a bat study carried . . .

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